iVAX

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iVAX Toolkit – Online Access

iVAX – Quick Facts

• Comprehensive set of epitope mapping algorithms

• Tools to build immunogenic and effective vaccines

• Applications to assay reagent development and

diagnostics

• Interactive and user friendly

• 24/7 access

• On-site training program

• Technical support service

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Vaccine Design Tools and Techniques

• EpiMatrix – maps T cell epitopes

• ClustiMer - Promiscuous / Supertype Epitopes

• BlastiMer - Avoiding “self” - autoimmunity

• Conservatrix – Identifies Conserved Segments

• EpiAssembler - Immunogenic Consensus Sequences

• Aggregatrix – Optimizing the coverage of vaccines

• VaxCAD - Processing and Assembly

iVAX Fully integrated

From genome to vaccine

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Seamless Vaccine Design Integrated toolkit is unique to iVax

Strain 1

Strain 3

Strain 2

core genome dispensable genes

strain-specific genes pangenome

Comparative Genomics Impacts

Vaccine Immunogen Selection

Human

Pathogen

Human Microbiome

Protective

epitopes

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detrimental cross-

reactive epitopes

Potentially

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reactive epitopes

Epitope Cross-Reactivity Impacts

Vaccine Immunogen Selection

EpiMatrix

• EpiVax uses EpiMatrix to predict epitopes – matrix based prediction algorithm

• Can predict either class I or class II MHC binding – MHC binding is a prerequisite for immunogenicity

MHC II Pocket

Peptide Epitope

Mature APC

MH

C II

T cell epitopes are linear and directly derived from antigen sequence Binding is determined by amino acid side chains (R groups) and ‘encoded’ in single letter code

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EpiVax HLA “Supertype” Coverage

• EpiVax tests for binding

potential to the most common

HLA molecules within each of the

“supertypes” shown to the left.

• This allows us to provide results

that are representative of >90% of

human populations worldwide*

without the necessity of testing

each haplotype individually.

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* Southwood et. al., Several Common HLA-DR Types Share Largely

Overlapping Peptide Binding Repertoires. 1998. Journal of Immunology.

EpiMatrix

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•The EpiMatrix algorithm scores all the 9-mers in a given

sequence for binding affinity across a range of common

HLA and reports both detailed and aggregated results.

•Unlike other tools, there are ancillary algorithms that

enhance the usefulness of the tool for immunogenicity

prediction of protein therapeutics and vaccine design.

•Does it work?

Epitope Identification EpiMatrix is the best available epitope discovery tool

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De Groot and Martin. Reducing risk, improving outcomes: Bioengineering less immunogenic protein therapeutics.

Clinical Immunology 2009. 131, 189-201.

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Easy easy to deliver as peptides ClustiMer

DRB1*0101

DRB1*0301

DRB1*0401

DRB1*0701

DRB1*0801

DRB1*1101

DRB1*1301

DRB1*1501

• T cell epitopes are not randomly distributed but instead tend to cluster in specific regions. – These clusters can be very powerful, enabling significant immune responses to low scoring proteins.

• ClustiMer recognizes T-cell epitope clusters as polypeptides predicted to bind to an unusually large number of HLA alleles.

• T-cell epitope clusters make excellent vaccine candidates:

– compact; relatively easy to deliver as peptides; highly reactive in-vivo

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Identifying the most conserved 9-mers allows for protection

against more strains with fewer epitopes

Conservatrix Finds Conserved 9-mers

Conserved

epitope

CTRPNNTRK

CTRPNNTRK CTRPNNTRK

CTRPNNTRK CTRPNNTRK

CTRPNNTRK

CTRPNNTRK

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BlastiMer: Epitope Exclusion

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In all of our vaccines we eliminate cross-reactive epitopes

Self Foreign

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EpiAssembler Produces

Immunogenic Consensus Sequences

VaccineCAD

VaxCAD will identify junctional epitopes and rearrange chosen epitopes to reduce

junctional epitope formation

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VaccineCAD

VaccineCAD Eliminates Introduced Junctional Epitopes

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DNA

Vector

DNA insert

Intended Protein Product: Many epitopes strung together in a “String-of-Beads”

Protein

product

(folded)

Multi-Epitope Gene Design

DNA – chain of epitopes, or peptide in liposomes

ICS-optimized proteins in VLP ICS-optimized whole proteins

Multiple Delivery Platforms Possible

Vaccine

Immunogenic

Epitopes

Shared

Immunogenic

Epitopes

smallpox

vaccinia

Case Study: Smallpox Vaccine

VennVax

Immunogenicity

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1. epitope DNA vaccine prime (IM)

2. epitope peptide boost (IN)

Immunizations

Days 0, 14, 28, 42 Challenge

Day 65

Case Study: VennVax Immunization

in HLA DR3 Transgenic Mice

Moise L et al. Vaccine. 2011;29:501-11

• Challenge done at 10X LD50 for Smallpox

• Related publication: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21055490

Case Study:

VennVax Protection: Survival

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100% protection VS Placebo

MHC

TCR

iVAX Feature Under Development:

JanusMatrix

JanusMatrix is designed to predict the

potential for cross reactivity between epitope

clusters and the human genome, based on

conservation of TCR-facing residues in their

putative HLA ligands.

Accessing the Tools Contact Jason Del Pozzo: bda@epivax.com

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PreDeFT: Fee for service in silico immunogenicity analysis. Performed on a protein by protein basis. Pricing based on length of sequence(s).

Limited ISPRI Website: Limited access to EpiVax’ Interactive Protein Screening and Reengineering Interface. Available for set numbers of proteins.

Unlimited ISPRI Website: Unlimited access to EpiVax’ Interactive Protein Screening and Reengineering Interface. Available in three year lease periods.

Fee for Service: HLA Binding Assays, HLA Transgenic Mice, ELISpot Assays.

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